The Campaign
Sirs:
I am about fed up with all your wisecracks and criticisms of the New Deal and everything pertaining to our beloved President and his humane love of the less fortunate. . . .
What this world needs is less criticism and greed and a little more love for our brother man. . . .
MRS. HELEN D. HARLOW
New Philadelphia, Ohio
Sirs:
... It seems like you are a Roosevelt New Dealer. ... I just wonder how you can be. ...
THORNTON HAMILTON Cuero, Tex.
Sirs:
. . . Now that TIME has apparently gone Republican perhaps it can tell us what sound Republican doctrine is. ...
ARTHUR J. BERGERON
Attorney at Law Berlin, N. H.
Sirs:
I have talked to several leading Republicans regarding what I thought to be a pro-New Deal editorial policy of TIME and have never found one who disagreed. . . .
You should know that Roosevelt no longer appeals to the vast majority of persons of average intelligence or above. . . .
You have never written one article about Landon, or the Republicans, but what you did not close it by an unwarranted and biased sarcasm, while on the other hand you use the entire front page to tell what F. D. R. has been doing, even though it is just fishing. From your articles one would be led to believe that Landon is pint-size and Roosevelt the full ten gallons. . . .
EMERSON R. PHILLIPS
House of Representatives State of Oklahoma Pawnee, Okla.
Sirs: The Press dispatches quote Governor Landon as suffering from insomnia and talking much in his sleep. . . .
The Republican nominee's sleep-talking is always the same, namely, "The Hearst newspapers and the Chicago Tribune--God save me from my friends." JOHN STAPLETON COWLEY BROWN Chicago, Ill.
Sirs: TIME, July 20, quotes Roosevelt as follows: "Well, my friends, I'm praying for fog." Boy, did he have his chin out! He doesn't need to pray for fog--he makes plenty of that--he should pray that it lasts long enough to hide from friends the difference between his words and his actions. . .
PATRICIA O'HARE
Brooklyn. N. Y.
Brooklyn Power
Sirs: Your story "Ford at Wheel" in TIME, July 27, could stand a little editing from a factual point.
1) The installed capacity of the River Rouge Plant is 435,000 h.p., not 326,000.
2) There are no 160,000-kw generators installed there, the largest being 110,000-kw.
3) I have grave doubts as to the reputed price, $42 per installed kilowatt is excessively high for a turbogenerator.
4) And lastly, if the writer of this article desires, I would be pleased to conduct him through the "largest steam-powered generating station in the world"--the Hudson Avenue Station of this company. With an installed capacity of over 1,000,000 h.p., it is not only the largest station but the greatest concentration of electric power in the world.
L. G. BARROW Advertising Manager Brooklyn Edison Co., Inc.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Adman Barrow's dispute is with the Ford Company, which still claims that its River Rouge plant is the "biggest steam-powered generating station in the world."--ED.
NYA
Sirs: The conclusion to be drawn from your account (TIME, July 27) of the past year's activities of the National Youth Administration is that we have succeeded only in incurring the enmity of American youth and the hostility of its teachers.
Appreciating your penchant for accurate reporting, I am sure you will welcome this correction of two errors of fact which appear, inadvertently I am sure, in your story.
First: "By last week NYA had managed to arouse a full-sized revolt among its beneficiaries ... the American Youth Congress." The American Youth Congress is an independent, united front organization. Since it seeks passage of the $3,000,000,000-per-year American Youth Act, it is impatient--understandably--with the less pretentious program of the NYA, with its 1937 budget of $71,250,000 and its restriction of aid to only those youths most desperately in need. It has never, so far as I know, claimed to represent all or even a majority of the more than 600,000 young people engaged in the various programs of the NYA. . . .
Second: "No more satisfied are most teachers, whose National Education Association has consistently deplored the absence of teachers on the NYA Advisory Board. . . ." This is a slight but pardonable anachronism.
Thirteen of the 37 members of our National Advisory Committee are educators, as are more than 60% of our State directors. I also, as active administrative head of the NYA, am an educator, being on leave of absence from the public school system of Denver, Colo.
Not only was the recent Portland, Oregon, convention of the NEA, before which I spoke. distinctly cordial in its attitude toward the Youth Administration, but in the past year we have received more than 1,000 voluntary communications from school and college officials all over the land, both within and without the NEA, commending student aid as a boon to depression-ridden youth. These letters, along with other hundreds from appreciative youths themselves, are on file at our headquarters in Washington. . . . RICHARD R. BROWN
Deputy Executive Director National Youth Administration Washington, D. C.
Double Bills
Sirs: ". . . What producers call the 'double bill evil' " (TIME, Aug. 3). And dear old John Public calls something far worse.
Everyone--producer, exhibitor, critic, tradesman, spectator--denounces the "double bill" mercilessly, especially after sitting for three hours, 29 minutes, as we did the other evening to see Show Boat and One Rainy Afternoon.
Yet no one does anything about it.
Not one person to whom I have spoken in almost two years favors the two-feature program. And many, like ourselves, forego numerous pictures worth seeing rather than endure a "wake" over a second or third-rater. . . .
A return to the good one-feature program, complemented with a newsreel, a cartoon, a travelog and either a comedy or a specialty, would, in my humble opinion, allay the grievances of one & all. . . .
DEANE H. DICKASON
New York City
P.S. As producer of the onetime popular "Port o' Call" Travelogs, I know my double features and whereof I speak.
A. M. A. Figures
Sirs:
TIME, July 27, p. 27 says the American Medical Association has 92,600 members constituting only 50% of 170,000 U. S. doctors. These figures . . . are incorrect and the inference absolutely unwarranted. Latest medical directory indicates 165,163 licensed physicians in the U. S., 1936, of whom approximately 140,000 are in active practice. Of these more than 103,000 are members of the American Medical Association. . .
MORRIS FISHBEIN
Chicago, Ill.
TIME's error consisted of confusing the A. M. A. Journal's circulation (92,600) with the A. M. A.'s full membership (103,000). To alert Dr. Fishbein, regrets.
--ED.
Impression of a Priest
Sirs:
Your complete article and photograph of Father Coughlin makes a distinct impression on me (TIME, July 27). One is "Oh what patience has our Holy Father at Rome." Second is that when any man calls our President a liar, especially a man in high places, he distinctly gives impetus to law-breaking and Communism.
May I suggest that the Reverend Father either become a politician and discard the collar, where I think he will be in his element, or return to the fold and follow the Great Man of Galilee.
E. J. LESPERANCE
Los Angeles, Calif. Newport's Handsomest
Sirs:
TIME errs again. Consult any Newport paper and you will find that John JaCob Astor is far from the top in the contest for handsomest man in the still-incomplete voting of the Hospital Fair (TIME, July 20). ANNE C. BARKER
Newport, R. I.
Right is Reader Barker. Concluded last week, the Newport Hospital Benefit Fair's male beauty race, decided by ballots costing 5-c- each, went to Nathaniel Peter Hill.
Hazel-eyed, dark-haired, 6 ft. 3 in., and 40, Winner Hill is a broker (Manhattan's Calvin Bullock), married to onetime Elinor Dorrance (Campbell Soup). Winner of the hard-fought prettiest-girl title was blonde Adelaide Whitehouse, debutante daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Fitz Hugh Whitehouse of Manhattan.--ED.
Co-operative Editors Sirs: In TIME (Aug. 3) one F. B. Griffith of Alexandria, Minn., in writing upon a co-operative meeting at Glenwood, Minn., says in part:
"Ninety percent of the country editors in Minnesota are living back in 1880 (mentally) and should be plowed under along with Secretary Wallace's surplus cotton."
These are harsh words, stranger, and as a member of this despised craft I write to enlighten Mr. Griffith as to what Minnesota editors are really like.
They are organized into the Minnesota Editorial Association, generally considered to be the strongest of the State newspaper associations. . . . Minnesota editors are smart enough to forget political differences and unite themselves into this co-operative body for the benefit of the newspaper business. The association for years has had a full-time paid secretary and field manager, maintains an office in Minneapolis, furnishes members engravings at cost, farms out jobs that members cannot handle in their own plants, last year purchased some $16,000 worth of merchandise for them, solicited and distributed $14,000 worth of advertising for them, furnished an employment service . . . and functioned in scores of other ways. . . .
The average Minnesota country editor is progressive, businesslike, old-fashioned enough to pay his bills and his taxes, educate his children, make his own modest living and keep off the relief rolls. He is proud of his own community and is active in promoting its welfare. . . .
If there is plowing under to be done, let the press agents, free-publicity-seekers, propagandists and demagogues be the first to be put under the sod.
GEORGE W. CHRISTIE
Red Lake Falls Gazette Red Lake Falls, Minn.
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